Hilton Takes on Small Luxury Hotels (SLH) | Coffee Break Ep08 | 4-23-24
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Until recently, Hyatt had a relationship with Small Luxury Hotels (SLH), but it was recently announced that Hilton will now be the one integrating SLH hotels. We'll talk about what that looks like in this week's Coffee Break episode.
(0:58) - Background: What is SLH?
Read more about this SLH update here: https://frequentmiler.com/fantastic-updates-about-hiltons-integration-of-slh/
(02:15) - Hilton’s approach to SLH
(08:40) - Why Hilton 120K isn’t so different from Hyatt 40K
(14:56) - Favorite SLH properties
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:16.4 | This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling coffee break. |
| 0:24.6 | Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:30.2 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. Enjoy. |
| 0:37.1 | Today's coffee break, Hilton takes on small luxury hotels. Small luxury hotels, |
| 0:43.6 | we've referred to it as SLH properties. Until recently, Hyatt had the relationship with |
| 0:50.5 | SLH, but as was announced several weeks ago now, I think, Hilton is taking over |
| 0:58.4 | the relationship with SLH. And at first we were a little worried about it, but we've got |
| 1:06.2 | some good news about that. So a little background. So what is SLH? It's a collection of independent |
| 1:16.0 | hotels. It's really a marketing channel for them, like some other brands that they get invited in. |
| 1:23.3 | And so it's similar to leading hotels of the world. It's similar to preferred hotels. |
| 1:28.3 | And let's see, their website claims there's 560 hotels around the world. |
| 1:34.3 | We know from experience many of them are in Europe. |
| 1:37.3 | Don't expect all 560 to necessarily be bookable with Hilton points. |
| 1:43.3 | They never got all of them bookable with Hyatt, |
| 1:45.4 | so I'm assuming there'll be a similar trend there. |
| 1:49.6 | And let's see, when they're with Hyatt, |
| 1:54.7 | we could book SLH properties based on Hyatt's regular award charts. |
| 2:00.8 | So they were fit into the different award categories and you were able to use free night certificates if they fit within compatible categories. |
| 2:09.6 | And an interesting thing Hyatt did was that when you book through Hyatt, you got perks like free breakfast, chance of room upgrade, |
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